One sentence voice adaptation using GMM-based frequency-warping and shift with a sub-band basis spectrum model

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5124-5127

  Tamura, Masatsune ^a   Morita, Masahiro ^a   Kagoshima, Takehiko ^a   Akamine, Masami ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

frequency warping; sub band basis spectrum model; unit fusion speech synthesis; voice adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS; ADAPTATION FRAMEWORK; ADAPTATION METHODS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY WARPING; MIXTURE COMPONENTS; SPECTRUM MODEL; SUB-BANDS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; UNIT FUSION;

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 80051619373     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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